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Chapter LIV

           Indeed,ashesensedandasoldChapinsooninformedhim,notmorethanseventy-fiveofthefourhundredprisonersconfinedhereweresoemployed,andnotalloftheseregularly—cooking,gardeninginseason,milling,andgeneralcleaningbeingtheonlyavenuesofescapefromsolitude.Eventhosewhosoworkedwerestrictlyforbiddentotalk,andalthoughtheydidnothavetoweartheobjectionablehoodwhenactuallyemployed,theyweresupposedtowearitingoingtoandfromtheirwork.Cowperwoodsawthemoccasionallytrampingbyhiscelldoor,anditstruckhimasstrange,uncanny,grim.HewishedsincerelyattimessinceoldChapinwassogenialandtalkativethatheweretobeunderhimpermanently;butitwasnottobe.

           Histwoweekssoonpassed—drearilyenoughinallconsciencebuttheypassed,interlacedwithhisfewcommonplacetasksofbed-making,floor-sweeping,dressing,eating,undressing,risingatfive-thirty,andretiringatnine,washinghisseveraldishesaftereachmeal,etc.Hethoughthewouldnevergetusedtothefood.Breakfast,ashasbeensaid,wasatsix-thirty,andconsistedofcoarseblackbreadmadeofbranandsomewhiteflour,andservedwithblackcoffee.Dinnerwasateleven-thirty,andconsistedofbeanorvegetablesoup,withsomecoarsemeatinit,andthesamebread.Supperwasatsix,ofteaandbread,verystrongteaandthesamebread—nobutter,nomilk,nosugar.Cowperwooddidnotsmoke,sothesmallallowanceoftobaccowhichwaspermittedwaswithoutvaluetohim.

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